dissiper
\di.si.pe\
The verdict
“dissiper” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,913. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,913
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Détruire en dispersant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissiper · dissiper · French
dissiper · rank #21,913 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,913
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divergent
Nearest frequency peer: divergent (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dissiper »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- discrètes
discrètes
78,091 corpus weight
- disparaisse
disparaisse
78,090 corpus weight
- dissiper
dissiper
78,088 corpus weight
- divergent
divergent
78,087 corpus weight
- divulguer
divulguer
78,086 corpus weight
- Dorian
Dorian
78,085 corpus weight
What this shows « dissiper » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissiper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.si.pe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dissiper »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around dissiper (IPA \di.si.pe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,913 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dissiper, with forms such as "ddissiper", "disiper", and "disisper". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dossier", "dissipe", "dessiner", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dissiper, spelled D-I-S-S-I-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Détruire en dispersant.
- 2Détourner du devoir, de la règle par des distractions, des frivolités.
- 3Consumer par des dépenses excessives, par des profusions.
- 4Disparaître peu à peu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissiper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les louanges qu’on donne à Bacchus, la plus glorieuse sans doute, c’est qu’il dissipe les soucis, les inquiétudes et les peines. Mais ce n’est pas pour longtemps: l’ivrogne cuve son vin, et les chagrins reviennent en poste.
Quelques soldats espagnols […] cherchaient en vain à rétablir l’ordre et à dissiper la foule, frappant à tort et à travers à grands coups de bois de lances sur les individus qui se trouvaient devant eux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddissiper
- disiper
- disisper
- dissiepr
- dissiperr
- dissipper
- dissipre
- disspier
- dsisiper
- idssiper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dissiper - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).